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Cristian Baldi
Personal blog · baldi.me/blogprogrammingdata
Cristian Baldi's personal blog at baldi.me covers programming and data. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts as examples of emoji used in SQL and of Unicode in source code, cited in a debate about whether programming languages should allow non-ASCII identifiers. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
DevOps Engineer and Web Developer with a passion for Open Source and Photography.
Most-linked posts?
- Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-06-26
What Hacker News says?
> While it's definitely cute and amusing, this is exactly why languages that specify their source code in non-ascii encodings are a bad idea. Clearly full Unicode-enabled source code is the future, just look at how amazing it can be: http://baldi.me/blog/emoji-in-sql
Comment linking /blog/emoji-in-sql
on “Rust, Macros, λ-calculus/Church numerals, oh my”Submitted Emoji in SQL – Using Emoji as SQL Identifiers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI submit that it should: http://baldi.me/blog/emoji-in-sql
Comment linking /blog/emoji-in-sql
on “Unicode Standard, Version 12.0”Submitted Queries with emojis (has CS gone too far?) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion